Tag: Team Foundation Server

Our support team recently worked with Ben Ari from the Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) support team (here’s his BLOG) on a customer issue where we needed to provide client access to TFS through this gateway. Following are the steps he provided. Many thanks to Ben for this. I hope you find it useful….

Make the move to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 With modern features like state-of-the-art version control, integrated bug tracking and flexible build automation, Team Foundation Server 2010 ensures the delivery of quality software faster. Below you’ll find all the tools and information to help you upgrade from Visual SourceSafe to Team Foundation Server…

Today my certificate expired on one of my SSL TF servers. I decided to become my own certificate authority so I went through the process of installing the certificate authority, creating a request from IIS on the TF server, etc. I put the cert on all the web sites, set up SSRS and WSS…

From Chris Cooper… This week we had a customer attempting to setup a Team Foundation Version Control Proxy for TFS 2010. He had followed the instructions in the install guide but was receiving the following error when trying to connect from Visual Studio: The source control proxy ‘tfs10’ is not responding, so the request…

An interesting post from Coop (Chris Cooper) this week. — Trev This week I was asked if there was a way to restrict users from selecting certain iteration paths. For instance, he wanted Project Administrators to have the ability to place bugs in the “Deferred” iteration path, but not the developers. Since there…

On occasion we here in TFS support are called upon to help a customer with their TFS subscriptions. The problems vary, but the one constant always seems to be that we (support) need to see their the TfsIntegration!tbl_subscription table. During a recent TFS subscription issue I worked, I noticed that the data in a to-text…

We occasionally receive cases in support where the initial impression is that a recent Microsoft update “broke” TFS. In most cases an update is not the cause of the problem, however we are aware of a potential issue due to a recent update (KB973917) where the TFS app pool will fail to start (in fact,…

Just wanted to remind everyone that on January 12, 2010, main stream support for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 will end. In order to remain eligible for support, users of SQL 2005 will need to upgrade to SP3. Customers who do not upgrade will need to have custom support agreement to get continued…